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Replies for: Cool article Rémi. I'm confused about why you would use dry-transactions when Rails already uses transactions in model callbacks. For instance, y...

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mememe • • Edited

I was going to post the same thing. This can be handled by rails without the need of an additional gem.

Lead.transaction do
   # do something
end

Maybe I am missing something.

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Rémi Mercier •

I thought that Lead.transaction - to use your example - only allowed me to wrap database operations as a single unit. With the dry-transaction it's more about any kind of operations. But maybe I am missing something.